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Prozac (fluoxetine) experiences

Posted by Ruuudy on June 29, 2016, at 14:26:31

I'm a veteran Prozac (fluoxetine) consumer - been taking it since 1990 (26 years).
I think my best therapeutic dosage is 20mg daily. For about the past year, I've been taking 40mg daily. I've had a feeling I might be getting some "Prozac poop-out", so I discussed this & possible augmentation strategies or changes in medications with my doctor.

My pdr & I agreed to bump my fluoxetine dosage up from 40mg to 60mg to see what that would bring.

*** UPDATE: I increased my fluoxetine dosage to 60mg daily taken in the am.
After 2 weeks at the increased dosage, I began to feel the onset of some of the symptoms I originally had occurring when I first began Prozac (fluoxetine) in 1990. I felt the fog beginning to reappear, and my depressive thoughts began to come out of hiding. I just know it wasn't any sign that the increased dosage was beginning to kick in.
It's just so ironic that a medication you take to relieve your symptoms of a certain disease can end up causing a recurrence of said disease!
Should I have toughed it out and continued on the 60mg dose?
I wasn't willing to risk it.
Perhaps the Prozac (fluoxetine) truly has finally pooped out after 26 years.?.
Perhaps I get the optimum benefit of fluoxetine at a very slight dosage.?. (5mg or 10mg daily)

*** Update #2: Since tapering down to 20mg daily a week ago, I am feeling much better.
Still some improvement to be had.

The brain --- such a delicate structure; we'll all be working on understanding it for many, many more years to come!

Rudy


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